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Choosing What Gets Translated

Omnalingo builds your Sitemap from the content on your site. A few settings — under Settings → General and Settings → Advanced — control exactly what it finds and reads.

Content types

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Under Settings → General → Sitemap Content Settings, choose which content is tracked in your Sitemap. Start from a preset, or pick manually:

  • Smart default (recommended) — the essential content visitors see; adapts to the plugins and features on your site.
  • Everything — all post types, taxonomies, and archives.
  • Everything but blog — excludes posts, categories, tags, and date/author archives.
  • Custom — pick exactly which post types and taxonomies to include.

You can also set which post statuses are included — Published by default, plus optionally Scheduled, Pending review, Draft, or Private.

Sitemap Content Settings: presets, manual post-type and taxonomy selection, and post statuses

Add a page manually

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Need a single URL that your content-type settings don’t cover? Two ways:

  • On Translation → Sitemap, click Add URL and enter its path.
  • Or open the page in the Live Editor — it’s added to the Sitemap automatically.

Either works at any time, even if the page’s content type or status isn’t selected.

Read pages as specific roles

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Some content is only visible to logged-in users (members, subscribers, shop managers). Under Settings → Advanced → Word Detection → View Pages As, choose which user roles Omnalingo views your pages as when reading them, so member-only content is captured too. Each role you add means Omnalingo loads every page one extra time when counting words or before a translation, so add only the roles you need.

Word Detection: a View Pages As role picker and an HTTP Basic Auth section for staging sites

Password-protected & staging sites

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If your site sits behind HTTP Basic Authentication (common on staging), Omnalingo needs those credentials to read your pages. Store them under Settings → Advanced → HTTP Basic Auth.

Skipping content

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To keep specific elements out of translation, use CSS-selector exclusions — see Excluding Content.